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. 1985 May;162(2):849–851. doi: 10.1128/jb.162.2.849-851.1985

Mutation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa causing simultaneous defects in penicillin-binding protein 5 and in enzyme activities of penicillin release and D-alanine carboxypeptidase.

H Noguchi, M Fukasawa, T Komatsu, S Mitsuhashi, M Matsuhashi
PMCID: PMC218934  PMID: 3921530

Abstract

Penicillin-binding protein 5 in Pseudomonas aeruginosa had moderately penicillin-sensitive D-alanine carboxypeptidase activity. As in Escherichia coli, a defect in this enzyme activity was not lethal.

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